CNCS Reporting Schedule

Just as a ship nearing a coast line keeps an eye out for the lighthouse, you, too, should know and keep and eye out for the normal year-in, year-out reports that are due to CNCS.

Let's start with a Calendar Year Perspective and then switch to a Fiscal Year view.
In January, you must be doing a six month Progress Report. It's due by January 31. Then in March you will need to write your annual renewal grant for your funding. I think it's due by March 31. In July, you will need to do your final year-end Progress Report. It's due by July 31. In November, you need to do the annual PPVA--it's due by November 30.

Meanwhile, you need to have your in-kind valualtions ready to report to Fiscal twice a year, in January and July.

RSVP's Fiscal Year actually begins on July 1 and ends on June 30. This doesn't sync with EIAP's Fiscal Year or the Federal Fiscal Year or the United Way Fiscal Year. Our Fiscal year is in a League of its Own!

The first thing you do at the beginning of each Fiscal Year is the Annual Progress Report. As summer fades into fall, you set your eyes on the PPVA and get ready for that procees right about when they switch the clocks for Daylight Savings Time. November's always a short month with the Thanksgiving Holiday and Veterans Day, etc. So, it always seems to fly by and the PPVA seem like it's on top of oyu before you know it. Get a jump on the PPVA as the nice summer weather begins to fade into the bright colors of autumn.

Once the PPVA is behind you, then you set your eyes on the next lighthouse or beacon--the semi-annual Progress Report that's due in January. You will have plenty of time to knock this one out. January's a very slow month and it seems like it lasts forever. So, you can do this report at your leisure with time to spare.

After the January report is out of the way, it seems like you are almost immediately heading for your grant renewal process. February seems to zoom past much faster than January and--BAM--there you are in March with the grant renewal deadline looming at the end of the month. We will give you some pointed abvout tehse reports in a separate blog post.

After the March grant renewal process is out of the way, you get a breather--and it always seems like a long breather. Your next report isn't due until the end of July so you really get 3 report-free months.

However, don't let the Annual Progress Report sneak up on you--start thinking about it at least six weeks in advance.

The only other thing we need to add here is the United Way grant application and review process. We will discuss it in more detail in a separate blog post. However, you need to know that it must fit into your annual schedule in late summer. Generally, it's due BEFORE Labor Day! That's a very inconvenient time to be preparing a grant application but it's the way of United Way. You're going to need some "quality time" to prep out the United Way grant during some of the best parts of summer. Be forewarned--the United Way grant can really mess up your plans if you have forgotten about it.

That's about it for the Reporting Schedule. Now, let's take a look (briefly) at each of the reports and applications in detail.